Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.

Discover the diamonds in everyday life.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through

A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.